Demagoguery

Demagoguery

The hissing in the garden wishing God's defeat

Stalking the parameters of waiting prey

We come like the break of day

A litany of death about to play

Its fatal hand here

Clawed to the hilt, sordid, best beware

Our swords will fill the air

With a morbid poetry born of despair

Under our rule

Black trees scratch red the fleeing sunset

Mist clings tight to Elysian fields

Now we hatch plans ripe for upset

Enflame belfries, time to be revealed

Diabology, no apology for a world

Upon her broken knees

Diabology, spreading the disease

Demons freed to spree and torture by decree

Of our demagoguery

Nightmare-fuelled, bejewelled in scars

Beneath the frozen stars

Children of the dark, of the craft we are

Deliciously grotesque

Severe puzzle boxes bursting to be solved

Not by any church absolved

Firebrands thirsting to be involved

In their ascent

Thick thorns adorn a twisted halo

For the fools and cruelly vain

As cathedrals soar, our sisters lay low

For the war-cry to roar back again

Diabology, no apology for a world

Upon her broken knees

Diabology, spreading the disease

Demons freed to spree and torture by decree

Of our demagoguery

What started as a whisper in the shadows of the night

Has sharpened to a painful blister on the weathered heel of life

And now our voices, like a knife, carve out our vicious plan

And set our hooks in the hearts of man

The moon writhes in her orbit

And doused in blood, she stirs

The tides to rise and deep inside

Her womb, her daughters purr

Tonight, the skies are spiteful

The gates are wearing thin

And through accruing torments shod

Our hated reign begins again

Poisonous, these words of power uttered back

Engage the fatal mechanism, and with that

This virus inside us

Desires to be free

Devotees whipped into a frenzy

Of intoxication in celebration of sin

Enchantment answers and dancers envy

Puppet masters faster pulling the strings

Diabology, no apology for a world

Upon her broken knees

Diabology, spreading the disease

Demons freed to spree and torture by decree

Of our demagoguery